I don't know if it's just me, but I seem to suffer from an overactive conscience. It kicks in when I'm going along, minding my own

The Otago Regional Council seems likely to spend up to $50,000 in unbudgeted funding to co-ordinate the release of a Korean strain

Recent events have tended to back the theory that the difference between an average farmer and a top farmer is one week. Let me explain:

Dom George doesn't trust anyone who doesn't love cricket...

I only have to evaluate my daily decisions to see the potential future of our environment. In summer my favourite place to be is the Ohau River at Gladstone Reserve. It's my slice of paradise.

Back in March 2015, then PM John Key vowed his party would do what it could to win back the Northland electorate seat after Winston

With a soil moisture curve climbing almost vertically, and no significant rain forecast for the rest of the month, Friday's declaration

Calling Sherlock Holmes. The Case of the Stolen Shed needs you: a pilfered building, claims of secret emails, alleged skulduggery

It seems like a day doesn't go by without more news reinforcing the dire state of our water. With the Government inquiry into the

Since becoming your representative on the Northland Regional Council last October I have been on a mission to understand the vast

The reaction of many Northlanders to the news that our region is to be promoted in Melbourne to attract tourists here was no doubt

Whether you're the President of the United States or a rodeo king - Twitter is a dark and dangerous place writes Dominic George

Discussion around the state of water quality in New Zealand is not short of an opinion or two. Yet when it comes to the science, we

It's back to school this week for my three children and around the country 765,000 students are returning to the classroom. This

It didn't take an Einstein to get who Bill English was really talking about at his Chinese New Year dinner speech, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

We are only a few weeks into 2017 but already it seems the phrase of the year might very well be the "F" one. Fake news. The phrase

However vehemently rodeo organisers defend their sport, time is just about up...says Peter Jackson

You can rightfully accuse Donald Trump of many things but you couldn't accuse the most powerful man in the world of sitting on his hands.

Many involved in farming livestock or crops in Hawke's Bay will have memories of a particular drought or droughts - that is a period

To the outsider looking in, horse riders can look a bit unapproachable. I mean, they sit up there on their gleaming steeds, looking

Being a bit of a country girl at heart I love the annual A&P Show. It's a parade of all that's good about the Kiwi country life

Malcolm Lumsden was recently stopped by a lady pronouncing that "I was one of those irresponsible farmers who allowed their cows to 'pee and poo' everywhere resulting in our rivers all being polluted"

It seems implausible, in this age of worldwide connectivity and immediate access to information, that councils, district health boards

COMMENT: Is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership the death of open economies or just a setback, Brian Fallow writes.

COMMENT: NZ First wants public money to pay for televising significant games so they can be seen by everyone, says Winston Peters.

As mentioned recently, the so-called collaborative stakeholders' group has recently released their Sea Change report and the Waikato

After a month off, it's back to the grindstone and as usual I have to catch up with what's happened in the world over the past 4

Last week the Northland Age asked why Kaitaia is still waiting for a reliable water supply. It is a valid question, and the Far

As a proud Englishman and a historian, I am often struck by the European desire to give lessons to the rest of the world. I suspect

David Low, the famous anti-appeaser British (though New Zealand born) cartoonist of the 1930s and 1940s, had a character called Colonel